A Pabna court yesterday sent Shirhan Sharif Tomal, son of Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, to jail in a case filed in connection with assaulting four journalists in Pabna's Ishwardi on November 29.

President Donald Trump signs into law legislation that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab within the US government, capping a months-long effort to purge the Moscow-based antivirus firm from federal agencies amid concerns it was vulnerable to Kremlin influence.

Laxmipur Additional Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Murshidul Islam and Executive Magistrate Nuruzzaman have been cautioned for jailing a civil surgeon. Their actions have been termed as abuse of power and the government has been instructed specially for their appointment.

The oldest and most distant black hole ever observed -- a celestial brute 800 million times more massive than the sun -- is providing scientists some surprises about the nature of the universe when, on a cosmic scale, it was a mere toddler.

The High Court rules that no educational institution can charge additional fees from the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) candidates to let them sit for the public examinations.

Democrat Doug Jones wins a bitter fight for a US Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by accusations of sexual misconduct against Republican candidate Roy Moore.